Synonyms: meticulous, painstaking, careful, scrupulous, fastidious, punctilious These adjectives mean showing or marked by attentiveness to all aspects or details. Meticulous and painstaking stress extreme care: "He had throughout been almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities" (Arnold Bennett).Repairing the fine lace entailed slow and painstaking work.Careful suggests circumspection and solicitude: A careful examination of the gem showed it to be fake.Scrupulous suggests care prompted by conscience: "He was scrupulous about paying his debts and equally scrupulous about collecting what was owed to him" (Pauli Murray).Fastidious implies concern, often excessive, for the requirements of taste: "Your true lover of literature is never fastidious" (Robert Southey).Punctilious specifically applies to minute details of conduct: "The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally" (Samuel Butler).

The study, done in collaboration with International Women's Coffee Alliance (IWCA), found that women's competitive advantage in these four markets' coffee industry lie, firstly, in their meticulousness when it comes to determining bean quality.

Rather, their respect emanates from the quality and meticulousness of their judgements." In the end, Kasuri prayed for incoming CJP Justice Khosa's success and hoped that he will leave a legacy which will make the following generations of lawyers and judges look up to his judgements with pride.

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